Correction to: Evaluating the impact of topological protein features on the negative examples selection Correction to: BMC Bioinformatics 2018, 19(Suppl 14):417 10.1186/s12859-018-2385-x After publication of the original article [1], it was noticed that the dagger symbol indicating equal contribution wasn’t added next to the names of all authors. The author list in this correction article has been modified to represent this correctly.